Coding for Lawyers
Backed by Y Combinator. Built by ex-Kirkland, ex-Gunderson, ex-Goodwin.
It was 2 a.m. and I had a management presentation in seven hours. The job: build a question list for the target's CEO and CFO. The non-negotiable: not one question on that list could already be answered somewhere in the 8,000-document data room. Nothing makes a partner regret bringing an associate to the call faster than burning management's time on something already produced.
So I read. And I cross-referenced. And I searched filename by filename. I spent years in big law doing exactly that — the slow, unglamorous, all-night verification work behind every clean question list. That night was the moment I realized I was doing the exact work AI was built for.
The 2026 dividing line in law isn't who uses AI. It's who can shape it. The gap between "fluent-sounding" and "actually using it" is the largest unpriced edge in our profession right now.
If you can write an email, you can do this. No coding background required. We'll handle setup together, live. That's not aspirational — that's the technology we'll use on Thursday.
— THE FIVE MYTHS WE'LL DISMANTLE FIRST —
(60 seconds each. Then we build.)
"It hallucinates — I can't trust a word it says on a deal or matter."
"My firm's data isn't safe."
"Our firm is building its own model, so I should wait."
"RAG is the future."
"I'd have to learn to code."
Each is wrong in a specific, demonstrable way. You'll leave knowing exactly why.
— WHAT WE BUILD TOGETHER —
One small AI agent. Live. Together.
The specific build is intentionally simple — a small agent that takes a plain-English instruction and returns a useful answer. Nothing that touches a client document. Nothing your firm IT needs to vet before you try it.
The point isn't the agent itself. The point is that once you've built one — one tool, one workflow, on your own laptop, with no engineering background — every locked door at your firm starts looking different. The diligence summarizer. The case-law cross-checker. The redline scanner. The clause-bank lookup. Those become "I know how to make that" instead of "I've read about people who can."
We start small. The legal applications light up on their own.
— STOP BEING A PASSENGER —
Every lawyer now has access to the same chatbots. The differentiator is no longer access — it's leverage. The lawyers pulling ahead aren't prompt engineers. They're attorneys who learned just enough to bend tools to their own workflow.
You don't need to become an engineer. You need to stop being a passenger.
— MONDAY MORNING —
The deal team, the case team, or the GC's office is in a room. AI comes up. You're not the one nodding along. You're the one who turns the laptop around.
— NO VENDOR PITCH —
Mage will not be shown, named in the demo, or linked during this session. The agent we build runs on tools you already have access to: Claude, a browser, your laptop. If you want to talk to us about Mage afterward, we're easy to find. But this hour is yours.
— YOUR GUIDE —
Raffi Isanians. Former engineer. Time in biglaw at Kirkland, Gunderson, and Goodwin. Founder of Mage (YC-backed). Codes daily. On camera the whole hour. Most legal-AI advice online comes from people who've never written a line of code. This session is the opposite.
— THE DETAILS —
Thursday, July 9 · 1:00–2:00 PM ET · Live on Zoom
1.0 Tech CLE credit — CLE application filed in NY and CA (application pending) — sponsored by Mage Legal
Free for in-house counsel and practicing lawyers
Capped at 500 seats
Live attendees get the recording first; public release 30 days later
Please use your firm or company email when signing up.
The people you'd expect to be here will be here. Quietly. Reserve your seat below.